Quotes on Health

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

Author: Peter Agre

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Author: Daniel Akaka

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

Author: Lamar Alexander

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

Author: Lamar Alexander

Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.

Author: Lucille Allard

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Author: Lucille Allard

Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

Author: Tom Allen

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

Author: Tom Allen

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

Author: Tom Allen

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Author: Henri Amiel

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

Author: Anacharsis

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

Author: John Anderson

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Author: Owen Arthur

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Author: W. Auden

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Author: Avicenna

The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.

Author: David Axelrod

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

Author: Lauren Bacall

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

Author: Spencer Bachus

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Author: Francis Bacon

Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

Author: Mitchell Baker

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.

Author: Richard Baker

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Author: John Baldacci

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

Author: Tammy Baldwin

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

Author: Clive Barker

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

Author: Neal Barnard

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

Author: Neal Barnard

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Author: Max Baucus

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

Author: James Beattie

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Author: Aphra Behn

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Listen, I, I did vote - I did cast a vote for health care, and I also said that I thought the process was horrible. The status quo before we passed health care was also horrible.

Author: Michael Bennett

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

Author: Robert Bennett

I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.

Author: Tom Berenger

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.

Author: Phil Berger

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

Author: Howard Berman

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

Author: Shelley Berman

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

Author: Donald Berwick

Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

Author: Donald Berwick

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

Author: Donald Berwick

I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

Author: Donald Berwick

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does.

Author: Donald Berwick

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Author: Josh Billings

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Author: Julie Bishop

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Author: Julie Bishop

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.

Author: Tim Bishop

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.

Author: Mark Bittman

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

Author: Lewis Black

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Author: Harry Blackmun

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

Author: Bonnie Blair

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

Make no mistake, a 'yes' vote on the Democrats' health care bill is a vote for taxpayer-funded abortions.

Author: John Boehner

America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

Author: Christopher Bond

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Author: Christopher Bond

It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.

Author: Christopher Bond

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

Author: Frederick Borden

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

Author: Leonard Boswell

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Author: Barbara Boxer

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Author: Sarah Brady

If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

Author: Eric Braeden

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Author: Zach Braff

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Author: Johannes Brahms

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Author: Nathaniel Branden

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

Author: John Breaux

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.

Author: John Breaux

There's nothing more erotic than a clean bill of health, my friend.

Author: Chris Bridges

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

Author: Corrine Brown

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Author: Corrine Brown

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Author: Helen Brown

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Author: Scott Brown

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

Author: Scott Brown

My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.

Author: David Bruce

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Health is the core of human development.

Author: Gro Brundtland

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

Author: Gro Brundtland

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

Author: Gro Brundtland

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.

Author: Gro Brundtland

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Author: Gro Brundtland

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

Author: Gro Brundtland

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Author: Jean Bruyere

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Author: Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Author: Buddha

Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.

Author: Jim Bunning

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Author: Edmund Burke

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Author: Carter Burwell

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Author: Samuel Butler

I've always enjoyed poor health.

Author: Taylor Caldwell

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

Author: John Cameron

I have no regrets. I've got my health.

Author: Naomi Campbell

I am hopeful for the American people that we can actually improve the outlook for bringing down costs in health care.

Author: Eric Cantor

We've had Town Hall meetings, we've witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the President's health care bill. And the bottom line is the people don't like this bill. They don't want it.

Author: Eric Cantor

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

Author: Eric Cantor

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

Author: Lois Capps

Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.

Author: Lois Capps

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.

Author: Lois Capps

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

Author: Mel Carnahan

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Author: Russ Carnahan

I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

Author: Karen Carpenter

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Author: Jimmy Carter

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

Author: Barbara Castle

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Author: Graham Chapman

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Author: Chris Chocola

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Author: Chris Christie

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

Author: Warren Christopher

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Author: Marcus Cicero

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Author: Frank Clark

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

Author: Laurel Clark

The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.

Author: Kenneth Clarke

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

Author: John Clifford

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

Author: Jim Clyburn

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

Author: Howard Coble

I think health is another exceedingly important thing.

Author: Joan Collins

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Author: Charles Colton

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Author: Cyril Connolly

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Author: Kent Conrad

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

Author: John Conyers

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

Author: John Conyers

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

Author: John Conyers

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

Author: John Conyers

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Author: Mason Cooley

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Author: Jerry Costello

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Author: Jerry Costello

Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.

Author: Jerry Costello

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Author: Katie Couric

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Author: Norman Cousins

It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.

Author: Michael Crapo

Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

Author: Michael Crapo

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Author: Quentin Crisp

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Author: Walter Cronkite

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

Author: Elijah Cummings

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

Author: Mitch Daniels

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

Author: Ron Davies

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Author: Richard Davis

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Author: Clarence Day

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

Author: Mark Dayton

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.

Author: Mark Dayton